In the Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins, third on Ozh’s list is “3. What? 87 new rows in the option table?”. In any of the plugins (and themes) I’ve looked at that use the built-in option saving functionality each field on the options page is being saved...

All of our children have a blog on one of our WPMU installs. One of them asked Andrea if we could add a facebook plugin so she could follow her facebook stream from her blog. The plugin that Andrea found that she thought would do the trick was the Facebook Dashboard Widget. After Andrea installed the...

In this comment, Jane Wells mentioned the idea of volunteering for 2 hrs per month toward the WordPress community. Even though Andrea & I do significantly more hours than that on any month, I think it’s a great idea. So, last night I revisited the exploratory development work I did a few...

Sometimes this happens, you’ve built the site and have to or want to change the domain it’s on. Or you did dev work on a different domain and now it’s time to go live. The domain name is actually stored in numerous places in the database, as well as one line in wp-config.php. Every...

Ron and I had a quick idea and a mini challenge for the day. The result is this quick and nifty plugin that left me wondering why nobody had done it yet. Signup CSS (543) This plugin add the css styling needed for the wp-signup page so the form looks a bit better. It should work on any theme, barring...

Sometimes you have to use a theme that has timthumb deeply integrated. And sometimes when you use a theme like this and you’re using WordPressMU and you’re also using the Sitewide Tags plugin to push the posts to the front page. Normally I’d suggest ripping out timthumb and using Get...

It’s been a while since we had a new admin area, and my old post with site admin panel screenshots is now horribly outdated. So! If you want to look before you leap into the wonderful world of WPMU, here’s some Site Admin screenshots. Most of the admin area looks exactly the same as regular...

Periodically, I and others update the codex entry on how to upgrade WPMU. If you are going from 2.7 upwards, the easiest thing is to just click the link in the upgrade notice and let it handle it automatically. This works if you’ve made no hacks. If you’ve changed ANY core files, they WILL...

I can’t believe we missed it – back on August 11, we passed our two year blog-o-versay. This blog has been aroudn for two whole years now. Our first post was way back here. That makes us at least middle school kids on the Internet playground. Couldn’t have done it without your help,...

I recently wrote a guest post for the excellent Pro Blog Design, called Build a Client Development Site with WordPress MU. The blog’s audience is mainly designers who work with WordPress, so the tutorial is written from that angle. Generally speaking, if you were looking for instructions on how...